How can "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" still be unreleased on DVD?

[mountebank]

I have been waiting for this documentary on the 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela to be available on DVD so I can show my friends and family who missed it during its extremely limited tenure in theatres. But alas, I find today that it is *still* unreleased on DVD! How can this be?

The only information I could find is on this website:
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org.uk/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=41
which states that Power Pictures (the production company) has said it will not be released "in the foreseeable future." I would think that there is a demand for this film. And it doesn't take much demand for a DVD release, as we all know. Apparently a TV version of the film called "Chavez: Inside the Coup," which was aired on UK television, is available through a distributor named Deckert Distribution ([e-mail])

I suggest a steady diet of e-mails to Power Pictures inquiring (politely) about when The Revolution Will Not Be Televised will be made available on DVD and making it clear that there is a demand for this film.

[e-mail]

Thanks!

Edit: to add e-mail address of Power Pictures - kind of important!

[wli]

1. HR 2726 will remove the last method of finding out these exist

[OneBlueSky]

2. ya know, if Gil Scott-Heron is still around . . .

his "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" would make a GREAT video, if anyone wanted to take it on . . . if done right, could be an award winner . . . after all, this was rap at its inception, and the lyrics are right smack dab on target in today's world . . . I'd sure like to see someone make this happen . . .

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
by Gil Scott-Heron

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.